A MAN caught trying to have sex with his bicycle has been sentenced to three years' probation.
Robert Stewart, 51, was caught in the act by two cleaners who walked into his bedroom at the Aberley House Hostel in Ayr.
Gail Davidson, prosecuting, told Ayr Sheriff Court: "They knocked on the door several times and there was no reply.
"They used a master key to unlock the door and they then observed the accused wearing only a white T-shirt, naked from the waist down.
"The accused was holding the bike and moving his hips back and forth as if to simulate sex."
At an earlier hearing, Stewart insisted that the cleaners' claim was "a lot of rubbish".
He said the incident had been caused by a misunderstanding after he had too much to drink.
But yesterday he admitted a sexually aggravated breach of the peace in October last year.
Unemployed bachelor Stewart had been living in the hostel after moving from a house in Girvan, Ayrshire. He now lives in Ayr.
Sheriff Colin Miller placed him on the Sex Offenders Register for three years.
The sheriff said: "In almost four decades in the law, I thought I had come across every perversion known to mankind, but this is a new one on me. I have never heard of a cycle-sexualist."
